Robert Stone, a fellow workman who endeavoured to prevent the deceased from fighting, corroborated the whole of the evidence of the first witness, and swore that the deceased gave the first blow. From the evidence of the mother, who resides in a miserable room in North-street, it appeared that her husband left her seven years since, and that the child was illegitimate; her earnings had been only about a shilling a week, which she got for assisting in the market as a vendor of clome. SATURDAY - The Coroner and Jury assembled at one o'clock this day, when a certificate was put in from a surgeon, that a Mr Gambridge, one of the witnesses, was unable to attend from illness. Dr Pennell was again called, and repeated the opinion he stated yesterday, and that the probability was, that death might have been accelerated by the mode of conveyance in which the deceased was removed. James, a hawker, arrived at Dawlish on Wednesday afternoon, he met 'father VICARY' , the deceased, who appeared to be ill, he vomitted, and witness went with him and got some brandy and rhubarb; after taking the medicine, deceased vomitted again. - A Man named COUSINS, whilst employed in painting the front of Mrs Pinhey's house, Bridge-street, in this city, on Tuesday, unfortunately fell from the scaffold and was killed on the spot. - On Friday last, as Mrs Widgery, wife of Mr John Widgery, a butcher, of this town, was returning from the harvest field in a cart, where she had been with dinner for the labourers, in company with her niece, Miss Cock; a boy, named GEORGE ASHELFORD, about 14 years of age, was driving the horse, and having given it a stroke with a stick, it went off at full speed, and drawing the cart over a bank, it overturned, and killed the boy on the spot. On Friday last, MR HURFORD was engaged in drawing dressing upon some part of his ground, and the deceased accompanied him; on returning he put her in the cart, and walked by the side of the horse, but on passing through a gateway, the cart, by some accident, upset, and the deceased was thrown out, the cart fell upon her, and she died instantly. Medical aid was instantly summoned, but in vain, the fatal act having been too successfully performed. SIR EDWARD remained on the beach until his three sons and the hind, who always bathed with them, as a precaution against accident, were in the water, and saw his two elder sons, the deceased, and his second son, EDWARD, beginning to swim in the shallow water. - Accidental Death.Friday 23 March 1827 EXETER - An Inquest was held on Thursday, before S. Walkey, Esq. inspected the body, there were no external marks of violence, and they were of opinion that the nervous system, had, by the fall, received so great a shock as to cause death. Several months ago the deceased had said she would drown herself in case she was in the family way, when in conversation with witness on the subject of something she had read in the newspaper about young women. The offices of Coroner for that division of the county, town clerk for the borough, clerk to the county magistrates, and clerk to the trustees of the Torrington turnpike, are, by the untimely decease of Mr Kingdon, become vacant.BARNSTAPLE - Inquests held by T. Copner, Esq. - On Tuesday last, at Horwood, on the body of JOHN SLOCOMBE, the unfortunate man on whom, in company with William Jocelyn, the quarry fell in on the 12th instant, as was reported in our following Journal, and the latter was killed on the spot: this poor man has since lingered in a most pitiable condition, till Monday last, when death released him from his sufferings.Thursday 5 June 1834 On Friday last, a man of the parish of Washford Pyne, called George Selly, was committed to the County Jail, charged, on the Coroner's warrant, with manslaughter; the particulars of the case are these: on the Monday preceding, the prisoner, GEO. Deaths. The Jury after a long and patient investigation returned a verdict of 'died from the effects of inflammation, but by what cause cannot be adduced.'
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